‘Preliminary workings’: the precompositional process in Maxwell Davies's Third Symphony

Tempo ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Jones
Keyword(s):  
Magic Squares ◽  
The Third ◽  
Total Control ◽  
Working Out

The overriding picture that emerges from the scrutiny of the sketches for Peter Maxwell Davies's Third Symphony (1984) is the remarkable insight it affords in demonstrating a highly proficient composer in total control of his material. He is the consummate workman: diligent, methodical, economical. Indeed, his rather cerebral approach can be construed as objective – purely in the sense of the detached and calculating nature of the sketches, seemingly free as they are from spontaneous outpourings of instinctive musical inspiration. Nevertheless, Davies's method of composing endows the overall project with a sense of cogent direction and powerful meaning. Such discernment is not easily achieved, and has to be carefully planned early on in the work's genesis; certainly, the Third Symphony – a prodigious piece of architecture lasting almost one hour – is enriched by its preliminary working-out. Furthermore, Davies's employment of precompositional determinants, such as Magic Squares and pitch and durational matrices, is so integral to the overall construction of the piece that there exists a susbstantial volume of material, soley devoted to precompositional workings for the work.

scholarly journals The Battles of Andros and Cos

1909 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Tarn
Keyword(s):  
Third Century ◽  
Subsequent Paper ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Important Evidence

No apology should be needed for treating afresh these much-discussed battles, if only because the last two years have produced new and important evidence from Delos; though in fact the literary allusions, scanty as they are, have hardly even yet been sufficiently elucidated. I hope in this paper to fix the dates of Andros and Cos by the Delian archon-list, and to consider what that means in terms of B.C. In a subsequent paper, to be published in the next number of this Journal, I hope, by working out the history of the ship which Antigonus Gonatas dedicated to Apollo, to confirm the date assigned to Cos in this paper. If these two dates could really be fixed, they would be invaluable for our understanding of Aegean history in the middle of the third century.

The Mozi and The Daodejing

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Franklin Perkins
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Working Out

The Mozi and the Daodejing are usually seen as fundamentally distinct and even opposed. In this article, I argue that they should be seen as emerging from a context of shared concerns and assumptions. The article begins by laying out initial commonalities between the two texts, offering a justification for discussing them together. The second part of the article will address their main points of difference, showing the Daodejing can be seen as working out tensions inherent in the Mozi. The third part of the article briefly considers textual sources that suggest hybrid positions between the Mozi and the Daodejing.

Rhetoric of Anxiety and Anxieties of Rhetoric: Strategies of Remembering Memories of Genocide in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins (2002) and Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2012)

Imbizo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Taonezvi Vambe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Metaphorical Language ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
African Novel ◽  
Total Control ◽  
Wayne Booth ◽  
Archetypal Images

In The Rhetoric of Fiction (1983) Wayne Booth argues that the rhetoric of fiction is its capacity to endlessly defer meaning, and in this process produce new meanings via unexpected significations. This article draws from some of Booth’s insights to tackle three creative problems related to the rhetorical challenges of fictionally representing genocide in the African novel. The first problem is how to artistically translate knowing into telling; the second challenge relates to how authors writing on genocide can guard against the danger of creating archetypal images of suffering women that might prove inadequate to capture women’s multiple human agencies. The third problem regards how to deal with the anxiety of what the language of genocide narratives may not be able to manifest in representing women’s responses to atrocities. Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins (2012) and Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2012) are two novels from Zimbabwe that suggest that creative authors who use metaphorical language to magnify suffering may not always be in total control of meanings and tend to not always know the implications of the metaphors they use in describing the process by which they make their own metaphors of suffering. The language of genocide has generated certain archetypal images that represent more than one thing. Vera and Mlalazi use the language of the genre of the literature of atrocities to enlarge, embellish and stylise representations of genocide. This article argues that these creative problems are inevitable because language is the only cultural resource that the fictional imaginaries might manipulate in order to recover and reconstitute certain memories of genocide.

The Most Ancient Islamic Monument Known Dated A.H. 31 (A.D. 652) from the time of the third Calif 'Uthman

1930 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Mohammed El-Hawary
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Working Out

In the Cairo Museum of Arab Art there are more than three thousand slabs of marble and stone bearing Cufic inscriptions. Most of these slabs are tombstones found in the ancient cemeteries of Cairo and Aswan. On each of these tombstones are inscribed the name of the deceased and the date of his death; hence they are invaluable in working out the evolution of Arabic writing. Only two hundred of these slabs are exhibited in the Museum, the others being kept in the stores and recesses of the building.

scholarly journals The growth stages of the lophophore of the brachiopods Platidia davidsoni (Eudes Deslongchamps) and P. anomioides (Philippi), with notes on the feeding mechanism

1959 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Natural State ◽  
Growth Stages ◽  
Feeding Mechanism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Working Out

The lophophore of Platidia, as illustrated in most memoirs and text-books, bears little resemblance to its appearance in life, no doubt because such illustrations and the accompanying descriptions were based on dried specimens. The lophophore of Platidia has been considered to be of a peculiar sigmoid type, differing from that of any other known lophophore. The dredging by R.V. ‘Sarsia’ of three species of the genus in recent years has afforded the opportunity of figuring the lophophore in its natural state, and the working out of its growth stages in P. davidsoni and P. anomioides: these were previously unknown for any species of Platidia. The third species, a new one, is described separately (Atkins, 1959).

scholarly journals Risk Analysis in Professional Terms and Insurance Tariff Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Asie Tsintsadze ◽  
Tamar Gogoberidze
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Events ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Liability Insurance ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Professional Liability ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Working Out

Modern society has to live and have activities with risks daily. Consequently, the probability of adverse events is high. In the article, the objective of the research is the risks of professional liability, which, in contrast to other risks, damage the third person. In this kind of insurance, it is difficult to define the amount of damage, the amount of compensation. Therefore, Based on historical facts, an algorithm is designed to determine the professional liability insurance tariff, taking into account the principles of tariff policy and working out the professional rating scale. Keywords: professional  Risk,   Level of professionalism,  Risk of insurance, Net rate, Insurance tariff,  risk added

scholarly journals ON THE QUESTION OF MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION AT A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

2018 ◽  
pp. 241-249
Author(s):  
Наталья Друцко ◽  
Natalya Drutsko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Third ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
Department Staff ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Multilingual Approach

The article is devoted to the practical issues of multilingual approach to foreign language teaching at a technical university. The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase in multilingualism in higher education. The vital problems of learning and teaching the third foreign language have become the research subject of many specialists. The article discusses educational aspects of promoting multilingualism at a non-linguistic university. The author sums up the experience of working out a special course for studying a third foreign language and creating a practical by the foreign language department staff of a comparative manual for teaching English after German.

scholarly journals V.—Further Notes nn the Arthropoda of the British Coal-Measures

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 539-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
The Third ◽  
South West ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Working Out ◽  
A New Species

For some years past a Committee of Littleborough and Rochdale geologists, consisting of Messrs. W. H. Sutcliffe, Walter Baldwin, W. A. Parker, S. S. Platt, and others, have devoted themselves to the task of working out the beds of shale containing clay-ironstone nodules, a portion of the Middle Coal-measures at Sparth Bottoms, half a mile south-west of Rochdale Town Hall, in beds estimated to occur 135 feet above the Royley Mine Coal-seam.In the clay-ironstone nodules occur well-preserved ferns, Calamites, Sigillariœ, shells of Carbonicola acuta and other Coal-measure lamellibranchs, whilst the number of Arthropoda obtained is probably unsurpassed in any locality of this formation.The first Arthropod obtained from Sparth Bottoms was noticed by Mr. Walter Baldwin, F.G.S., under the name of Prestwichia, rotundata, Prestw., sp. (Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvii, part 6, 1901, pp. 149–155, with a plate); the second in 1903, by the same geologist, who identified it as Bellinurus bellulus, König (op. cit., vol. xxviii, part 8, pp. 198–202). The third and most important discovery was made by Mr. W. A. Parker, F.G.S., namely, a new species of fossil Scorpion, which was described and figured in 1904 by Messrs. Baldwin & Sutcliffe under the name of Eoscorpius Sparthensis (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lx, p. 396, fig. 2). These geologists have continued their researches, of which a brief account was given by me at the York Meeting of the British Association (1906). Many subsequent finds have been most obligingly confided to me by these gentlemen, and through the kindness of Mr. W. H. Sutcliffe the specimens figured have since been presented to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History), the only condition imposed being that they should be described.

Progress report on 21-cm observations at low latitude between longitudes (l 11) 0° and 66°

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
W. W. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Low Latitude ◽  
The Third ◽  
Introductory Lecture ◽  
Centre Region

In the course of several 21-cm observing programmes being carried out by the Leiden Observatory with the 25-meter telescope at Dwingeloo, a fairly complete, though inhomogeneous, survey of the regionl11= 0° to 66° at low galactic latitudes is becoming available. The essential data on this survey are presented in Table 1. Oort (1967) has given a preliminary report on the first and third investigations. The third is discussed briefly by Kerr in his introductory lecture on the galactic centre region (Paper 42). Burton (1966) has published provisional results of the fifth investigation, and I have discussed the sixth in Paper 19. All of the observations listed in the table have been completed, but we plan to extend investigation 3 to a much finer grid of positions.

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